JANAL APWH CHAPTER 7 Strayer 3rd edition ways of the world - commerce and culture quiz

1. This region imported scarce salt in return for gold from its mines.

a. China

b. Western Europe

c. West Africa

d. Arabia

c

2. How did Islam make its way into West Africa?

a. Missionaries brought the religion to the region.

b. West Africans, seeking greater integration into world trade systems, sent emissaries to make inquiries about Islam in Islamic lands.

c. Muslim conquerors from North Africa brought the faith with them.

d. Traders carried information about the faith across the Sahara.

d

3. Which statement is true of the Silk Roads?

a. There were two roads, one northern and one southern, that were carefully maintained by the rulers of Central Asia to encourage trade.

b. The term refers to a network of roads, along which goods changed hands many times before reaching their final destination.

c. The term refers to what was mostly trade by sea, but also included some transport overland.

d. The term refers to a network of roads, dominated by long-distance traders who carried goods on long journeys between the continents.

b

4. What are the steppes?

a. The plateaus of the Indus River Valley

b. The frozen tundra of Siberia

c. A vast region of semi-arid northern grasslands in Eurasia

d. The foothills of the Himalayas

c

5. Which of the following is a reason why the Silk Road trade networks flourished in the Second-Wave era?

a. The civilizations at both ends of the Silk Roads invented coinage, greatly simplifying the exchange of trade goods.

b. The domestication of the camel eased transport of goods.

c. Weather conditions favored long-distance trade.

d. The large states on both ends of the Silk Roads provided security for merchants.

d

6. Which state was the sole source of silk for many centuries?

a. The Byzantine Empire

b. China

c. India

d. Korea

b

7. In what manner did Buddhism spread to the oasis cities of Central Asia?

a. It was voluntary, reaching these locations through trade.

b. Buddhist traders created the first cities in this region, naturally bringing their religion with them.

c. Rulers, eager to trade with Buddhists, forced their subjects to adopt the new religion.

d. Buddhist missionaries carried their religion to the region.

a

8. Which of the following statements is true of Buddhism in China during the Third-Wave era?

a. Although it soon won popularity among common people, it took centuries for Buddhism to gain a foothold among China's elites.

b. Chinese rulers imposed Buddhism on their subjects.

c. Buddhism was native to China and was practiced side by side with Confucianism.

d. It remained the religion of foreign merchants and foreign rulers for many centuries, only gradually winning popularity among the Chinese themselves.

d

9. How was Buddhism changed as it spread from India to other regions?

a. The practice of the faith became less compassionate and more focused on abstract theological issues.

b. Buddhist monasticism became wealthy and deeply involved in secular affairs.

c. Buddhist monks began to beg for a living in a conscious rejection of the wealthy trade world around them.

d. It changed very little, as Buddhist monks worked consciously to preserve their cultural heritage.

b

10. Which diseases, spread along trade routes, contributed to the fall of both the Roman Empire and Han dynasty China?

a. Influenza and measles

b. Smallpox and typhoid

c. Smallpox and measles

d. Typhoid and bubonic plague

c

11. Which European city emerged by 1000 C.E. as a major center for commerce, generating much of its wealth by transshipment of Asian goods?

a. Paris

b. Alexandria

c. Constantinople

d. Venice

d

12. Before about 1500 C.E., which sea-based system of exchange was the largest in the world?

a. The Mediterranean Sea

b. The Indian Ocean

c. The South China Sea

d. The North Sea

b

13. What is a monsoon?

a. An alternating wind current

b. A hurricane

c. A tidal wave caused by an earthquake under the ocean

d. A tornado

a

14. Unlike most early Indian Ocean trading peoples, members of this culture traveled thousands of miles over the open ocean to trade and settle.

a. The Egyptians

b. The Phoenicians

c. The Arabs

d. The Malays

d

15. What is classical Islam's attitude toward trade?

a. Islam was friendly to commercial life and trade.

b. Islam was suspicious of trade, but gradually allowed an element of trade to take place among its believers.

c. Islam was completely negative about trade, rejecting it as the work of the devil and destructive of human communities.

d. From the beginning, the Islamic state was eager to harness trade both to generate wealth and to spread the new religion.

a

16. What caused the massive slave revolt that, in the later ninth century, badly disrupted the Abbasid Empire?

a. New legal restrictions placed upon slaves

b. A vast increase in debt slavery, driving many newly enslaved peasants to despair

c. A religious movement that preached social equality among the slaves

d. The horrible conditions of the thousands of African slaves on plantations and in salt mines

d

17. Which statement best describes the cities and states of Southeast Asia in the period 500-1500 C.E.?

a. These cities and states were very ancient, first appearing among the First Civilizations but growing in importance thanks to the trade of the Third Wave.

b. These cities and states emerged during the Second-Wave era.

c. These cities and states first emerged during the Third-Wave era.

d. These cities and states grew up in both the Second- and Third-Wave eras, growing organically in response to the needs of local, rather than international, trade.

c

18. What was Srivijaya important to world history?

a. It dominated the critical choke point of Indian Ocean trade for over three centuries.

b. As the main Malaysian settlement on Madagascar, it created a great cultural exchange network between Africa and Southeast Asia.

c. As an important port on the Persian Gulf, it dominated trade between Mesopotamia and Asia.

d. It was the greatest Buddhist temple complex in Southeast Asia.

a

19. Which of the following regions adopted many elements of Indian culture, including a writing system, art, and god-kings, thanks to the Indian influence that came with trade?

a. Japan

b. Madagascar

c. Arabian Peninsula

d. Southeast Asia

d

20. What is Borobudur?

a. A great Hindu temple in the Angkor Kingdom

b. A great trade center in Indonesia that controlled a regional commerce network for centuries

c. The largest Buddhist monument in the world, built in Java

d. A great Hindu monument in the Champa Kingdom

c

21. Which of the following statements was true of women in Southeast Asia in the Third-Wave era?

a. Women had fewer restrictions and a greater role in public life than in East or South Asia.

b. Women were held in great esteem, but had no legal rights.

c. Women were subjected by a patriarchy even stricter than that of China.

d. Women enjoyed relative equality with men.

a

22. Where was the Swahili civilization located?

a. In the Persian Gulf

b. West Africa

c. Along the coast of East Africa

d. Madagascar

c

23. Which of the following statements best describes political organization in Swahili civilization?

a. Swahili civilization had a number of independent cities, each ruled by a merchant oligarchy.

b. Swahili civilization had a number of independent cities, each ruled by a king.

c. Swahili civilization gradually came together into a single empire.

d. Swahili civilization was a stateless society.

b

24. Which of the following became the principal religion of Swahili cities?

a. Christianity

b. Hinduism

c. Native animism

d. Islam

d

25. Which African state constructed huge stone enclosures without mortar, leading scholars to believe that it had great wealth and many resources?

a. Angkor

b. Kilwa

c. Great Zimbabwe

d. Timbuktu

c

26. Which of the following is a product of the Sahara?

a. Salt

b. Gold

c. Ivory

d. Kola nuts

a

27. When was the domesticated camel introduced to North Africa and the Sahara, transforming trade?

a. In the early first millennium B.C.E.

b. In about 1000 C.E.

c. In about 500 B.C.E.

d. In the early centuries of the Common Era

d

28. What was the main political system that emerged in West African states in the period 500-1600 C.E.?

a. A mix of monarchies and republics

b. Monarchies

c. Republics

d. Direct democracies

b

29. Which of the following statements best describes West African slavery in the period 600-1500 C.E.?

a. West African slaves were only used domestically, rather than being exported to other countries for sale.

b. West African slaves were natives, enslaved for debt.

c. West Africa had little slavery but sold large numbers of slaves to North Africans.

d. At first most slaves were women, but male slaves were increasingly employed for heavy labor.

d

30. Which of the following statements is true of trade in the Americas before 1500 C.E.?

a. Long-distance trade never developed, although local and regional commerce flourished.

b. There was some long-distance trade, but it operated on a small scale because of the difficulties of travel in the Americas.

c. A large-scale system of long-distance trade developed, catering especially to the needs of Mesoamerican civilizations.

d. There was very little trade beyond the strictly local level, as the civilizations of the Americas encouraged self-sufficiency.

a

1. Which of the following highlights an effect of the international trade in silk?

a. The deforestation of much of China

b. The widespread use of silk materials among commoners

c. The association of silk with the sacred in Buddhism and Christianity

d. The declining price of silk by the tenth century

c

2. Which statement characterizes the networks and webs of exchange that connected different parts of the world from 500 to 1500?

a. Interaction among the major civilizations operated on a relatively equal basis.

b. Regional trade organizations formed to establish monopolies on goods most in demand

c. Trade operated as means of establishing diplomatic relations between sovereign states.

d. Competition for control of trade routes sparked numerous wars.

a

3. What made possible the long trek across the Sahara?

a. Horses

b. Donkeys

c. Slaves

d. None of above

d

4. The political structure of Swahili civilization was similar to the

a. large empires of ancient Rome and China.

b. stateless cities of the Niger River Valley.

c. complex societies of the Eastern Woodlands in North America.

d. competitive and independent city-states of ancient Greece.

d

5. What development between the sixth and eleventh centuries increased and expanded trade in the Indian Ocean basin?

a. The encouragement of maritime trade by an effective and unified Chinese state

b. The encouragement of land-based trade by an effective and unified Chinese state

c. The discovery of a new route linking Asia to the Americas

d. The discovery of a new route linking Asia to Australia.

a

6. The spread of the Black Death from China to Europe in the fourteenth century occurred during an era of increased contact facilitated by

a. monsoon winds.

b. the spread of Buddhism.

c. newly paved roads.

d. Mongol rule.

d

7. This was a matter of voluntary adoption and adaptation of Indian ideas by independent societies.

a. Indian cultural influence in Southeast Asia.

b. Indian cultural influence in China.

c. Chinese cultural influence in the Middle East.

d. None of above.

a

8. Muslim merchants and sailors establishing communities of traders from East Africa to the south China coast was a result of...

a. The sudden and quick rise of Islam as a friendly religion.

b. Islamic rulers succeeding in suppressing the Silk Roads trade.

c. Christianity failing to spread as fast as other religions.

d. All of the above

a

9. Between __ & __, the civilizations of Mesoamerica and the Andes seem to have had little direct contact with each other.

a. 500 & 1000

b. 200BCE & 1000 CE

c. 500 & 1500

d. 0 & 1500

c

10. The absence of which of the following made long-distance trade in the Americas difficult?

a. wheeled vehicles

b. organized governments

c. organized religions

d. big rivers

a

11. Trade along the Silk Roads was facilitated by

a. the collapse of the Indian Ocean trade network, which increased the importance of land routes.

b. the emergence of the Swahili civilization, which provided most of the goods in demand.

c. the emergence of powerful states in Southeast Asia that controlled the trade.

d. large and powerful states that provided security for merchants and travelers.

d

12. The trade conducted along the Silk Roads was largely a "relay trade" because

a. it linked the entire world into a single trade network.

b. it linked the large civilizations on the outer rim of the Eurasian continent but bypassed the pastoral peoples of the interior.

c. goods were passed down the line rather than carried by one merchant along the entire route.

d. its purpose was to carry goods for the long-distance trade in the Americas.

c

13. __ held rich deposits of the highly valued commodity of salt.

a. The Middle East

b. The Sahara

c. Central Asia

d. Southeast China

b

14. Which of the following was a consequence of the exchange of diseases along the Silk Roads?

a. The Christian church in the Byzantine Empire weakened.

b. Europeans developed some degree of immunity to Eurasian diseases.

c. Chinese officials sought to suppress long-distance trade.

d. None of above

b

15. Swahili civilization was most heavily influenced by which of the following cultures?

a. Chinese

b. Niger River Valley

c. Bantu

d. Axum

c

16. The states that emerged in West Africa between 500 and 1600 shared which of the following characteristics?

a. A city-state system of government which stopped empires from forming

b. An absence of urban or commercial centers

c. A reputation in the wider world for great riches

d. A stateless system of government

c

17. Which of the following states had the greatest control over economic exchange within its borders?

a. Inca

b. Aztec

c. Mayan

d. Chivas

a

18. Which of the following is an example of the "Indianization" of Southeast Asia?

a. The architectural expression of Hinduism at Angkor Wat

b. The architectural expression of Buddhism at Angkor Wat

c. The architectural expression of Hinduism at Borobudur

d. The architectural expression of Buddhism at Borobudur

a

19. Which of the following describes the Swahili civilization's relationship with the people who lived in the interior?

a. Swahili kings expanded into the interior, eventually establishing an empire that stretched from coast to coast.

b. Swahili states demanded that people living in the interior pay an annual tribute to gain access to the coastal trade.

c. Swahili culture spread throughout most of the interior, as evidenced by widespread acceptance of Islam.

d. Swahili cities operated as intermediaries for people from the interior to sell their goods to Arab merchants.

d

20. The following statement is an example of which trade network?

"Networks were local, with the most active links within rather than between regions."

a. Indian Ocean Trade

b. Silk Road Trade

c. Sand Roads Trade

d. American Web

d

21. The Sand Roads linked North Africa and the Mediterranean world to the land and peoples of

a. interior West Africa.

b. interior East Africa

c. the Swahili civilization.

d. none of above

a